Lissette Lemus

Lissette Lemus

Lissette Lemus is a Salvadoran documentary photojournalist. Her work centers on gang-related violence and the decades-long migration crisis in El Salvador. She also covers migration, religion, human rights and natural disasters. Lemus holds a master's degree in violence prevention public policy at Universidad Don Bosco in El Salvador.

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Franciscan Sr. Consuelo Peset Laudeña shows one of the Spanish Giant rabbits the cloistered community breeds at the Convent of St. Anthony of Padua in Central Spain. The rabbits are at risk of extinction. (Lissette Lemus)

At a Spanish convent, nuns fight to preserve rare giant rabbit species

"We have to protect creation," Sr. Consuelo Peset Laudeñashe said. "We are Franciscans. St. Francis is the patron saint of veterinarians, and that is the source of the love we feel for the Spanish giant rabbit."